Archive for the ‘Accessibility’ Category

After coming up with a quick bit of code yesterday for the longdesc comment that Ruth left, I had another idea. I decided to try the the idea using the title attribute on images. Before launching on my idea, I decided to find out if the idea was valid by W3 standards.

I just received this comment today by Ruth and when I read it, I thought, yeah, why not. “longdesc” as the name says provides a longer description to supplement the alt attribute of an image. When I first thought about the problem, my first inclination was to provide a hidden div that held the long description which became visible whenever the image it corresponded to was interacted with. The solution seemed intriguing but I had another thought toying with me at the back of my mind.

Making forms accessible isn’t something hard to do, but most times, it gets overlooked as developers pay more attention to parts that get noticed by users who can see visual changes. But then again, there are users out there who rely on assistive technologies and accessible forms help them tremendously in completing their tasks without unnecessary hitches.